7 Days to Die: Essential Tips For Your First Horde Night BASE! 

It's a solid base and even has the mandatory machicolations for killing the odd outlier who gets stuck in rage mode. But all you do by having the pit is delaying reage mode until they come back in range. You need to make them spend some time to get into range so the timer runs out and they forget about their rage. But that's just not feasible for a starter base. The pit is a good choice for an explosives base though. There you want to make sure that the zombies can't escape and your primary way of killing is throwing explosives and mollies into the pit. Not sure whether that is still fun in A22/1.0 with the new trickle spawn mechanic though... Btw, it's always good to have more than one (switchable) zombie path and plan the base for that from the start. The second path after the melee station should be a loop, so you can repair in peace if needed.

just picked the game up a few hours ago and having a blast! Thanks for this awesome video very informative

There are a couple of spots I've found where you can hang out safely on Horde nights, kill zombies with no risk up to and including day 21. That gives me ample time to outfit a proper base that will suffice well into triple digit days.

Love these tips videos. Its been a while since I played so the tips will definitely help out a damsel in distress 🤣

Its definitely clever, however I can't stand free-floating blocks. I know it's just a video game, but I don't like the unimersive look of free floating blocks.

These ‘floating block’ builds, break emersion for me

i went 15 lol but im over kill but that is 12 ground lvl with a pit with and exit back to the stair area lol however my buddy was watching my first horde night .. simple 5x5 but i forgot and had hatches to get in and out.. worked great till the floor hatch broke.. i was able to get out then up and shoot down i had no clue horde night lasts "all night" now and not a set number of waves lol but i did it!!! haha i do like the base design for early starts

The distance from player to not cause "Destroy Area" mode may have been increased to 16 or 17.

Already far to big/elaborate for the very first horde night... Just build a ramp up like 13 blocks or so, then have a little path with maybe some dropper blocks in it and then your little "bunker" area (which just needs to be a small box) and you're done with it. Far simpler than what you created there, especially far simpler than digging a far to big pit. Your pit also has the problem that it can't deal with dogs. They will start destroying the ground.

Hordes now last until 4AM Reach, have you tested this in actual game play? Not to mention having to scramble resources and run missions so you can progress?

Pretty good starter 😊

Just seeing how many cobble you need, new players won´t be able to do this. It´s been a long time since i was new, but i know thee is no way i could have that much cobblestone on day 7. Propably most newbies will still struggle with that on day 14

How tf you get enough cobblestone or brick or whatever by day 7 to build that much? I would barely have enough to make maybe the staircase.

Reach, it's not 11 blocks anymore, it's 13.

How late into the game can this base hold me for?

Too much digging without cheat. My first base was reinforce house, multi fallback entrance, worked fine.

lots of stone for day 7

No way would you build something that big for your First horde base. you woudn't be able to get those materials together.

I want to see an actual base that can hold out a hoard, not a cheese base.

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LOL wtf?! Who the heck would waste time building a base from scratch for the 1st 2 horde nights? a cobblestone reinforced small T1-2 poi is simply better at this point of the game! XD <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="35">0:35</a> Also really? early? That's like 500 cobblestone blocks! XD Farming all this shit with low tier stone tools is not what I call an intelligent move rofl!!

i never build bases like this. I like to simulate real life scenarios like reinforcing a house, base, hospital, etc. I find these bases boring and unrealistic

Cheap. I just turn off hoards

The most pathetic way to play this game, how weak you could be to build a base like this? Play without glitch the AI noob